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Josh Smith on WPF
12 Oct 2008 03:31
Showing An Ellipsis For Clipped Text In A Combobox
If you have a ComboBox with a fixed width, and the selected item is wider than that width, it will be clipped.   That is OK, but it’s nice to let..

WPF Performance
11 Oct 2008 01:11
Fixes To Wpfperf Performance Profiling Tool
Some folks reported issues with x64 & with x86 on non-US PCs with our first post . On 10/9/2008 we posted an update.  These issues should be fix..

Josh Smith on WPF
8 Oct 2008 13:41
Binding To (Validation.Errors)[0] Without Creating Debug Spew
Microsoft’s documentation that shows how to display validation errors for elements says to use a binding like this: This works, but it causes reams..

Greg Schechter's Blog
28 Sep 2008 02:00
A More Useful Multi-Input Effect
In my last post , I introduced multi-input effects, where you can send in arbitrary WPF brushes that are interpreted as samplers in the shader. ..

WPF Performance
26 Sep 2008 07:00
Etw Event Tracing In Wpf
Event Tracing for Windows ( ETW ) provides application developers the ability to start and stop event tracing sessions, instrument an application to ..

WPF Performance
26 Sep 2008 06:17
Updated Wpfperf Performance Profiling Tools For Wpf
The WPFPerf tool comprises of a suite of performance profiling tools that allow you to analyze the run-time behavior of your WPF application and poin..

Henry Hahn
25 Sep 2008 17:17
You, Too, Can Own A New Pdc Usb Hard Drive
Traditionally, when you first get to the PDC and stop by the registration desk, you get a bag of all kinds of goodies, including a handful of CD's or..

Lester's piece on WPF/Avalon
25 Sep 2008 14:09
Xaml Coding Guidelines
While we have comes across a number of Coding guidelines, there is hardly any guidance wrt writing Xaml. Recently, I was pointed to Paul Stovell's po..

Josh Smith on WPF
19 Sep 2008 00:23
The Initially Selected Item When Binding To A Grouped Icollectionview
I found a bug in WPF today.  That doesn’t happen very often, but today was one of those days.  If you bind a ListBox to an ICollectionView that h..

Josh Smith on WPF
16 Sep 2008 13:16
Xaml Powertoys V2 From Karl
Karl has just released v2 of his XAML PowerToys .  He has really outdone himself this time!  The main purpose of these Visual Studio Add-ins is to ..

Greg Schechter's Blog
16 Sep 2008 07:16
Introducing Multi-Input Shader Effects
Thus far in this series on Effects , we've discussed building and using Effects that have a single "texture" or "sampler" as input to them.  In ..

Adam Nathan's Win32 to WinFX Blog
16 Sep 2008 07:00
Silverlight 2 Unleashed Available For Pre-Order
I told someone awhile back, "Don’t worry, there will be a Silverlight 2 Unleashed.  The only real question is whether I'll be the one writing ..

Josh Smith on WPF
15 Sep 2008 04:53
Conserving Screen Real Estate Via The Adorner Layer
I spent the weekend building and expanding on my previous work adorning XamDataGrid with editor controls.  I made leaps and bounds of progress, and ..

Josh Smith on WPF
12 Sep 2008 22:09
Editing Metadata In The Adorner Layer
Today I created a solution to a problem involving where and how to edit metadata about a value in the XamDataGrid.  I  blogged about it on my work ..

Lester's piece on WPF/Avalon
11 Sep 2008 17:37
Analyzing Complex Code
Quite often you come across some complex code, and the first thing you think of is "is there a diagram which lays this out?". .NET Reflector and its ..

Josh Smith on WPF
9 Sep 2008 15:44
Using Attached Behaviors To Add Currency Support To Xamdatagrid
I just found another great use for attached behaviors !  I used them to add to XamDataGrid the equivalent behavior of what WPF list controls get for..

Windows Presentation Foundation SDK
8 Sep 2008 18:04
Custom Window Chrome In Wpf
Guest post by Joe Castro, WPF product team developer This document covers the design and some implementation details of getting WPF windows wrapped i..

Josh Smith on WPF
6 Sep 2008 21:57
Synchronizing The Width Of Elements In An Itemscontrol
When I use an ItemsControl (or subclass of ItemsControl, such as ListBox) to display a list of items, I often want the width of an element in each it..

Windows Presentation Foundation SDK
5 Sep 2008 17:46
Xamlpadx 4.0 Now Available
Lester Lobo has posted the latest version of the excellent XamlpadX utility here . This is a must-have for anybody who's doing serious XAML developme..

Josh Smith on WPF
4 Sep 2008 13:18
Using Mvvm To Work With Checkboxes In Xamdatagrid
On my other blog, I published a way to put CheckBoxes into the XamDataGrid .  The interesting aspect of the implementation, in my opinion, is how it..